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Orange County Indexed

The Atwood surname

The Atwood name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records and 5 people in the chronology.

In the records
1779 to 1829 most named in the 1790s
  • Tax lists 1779
  • Deeds 1795–1810
  • Marriages 1810–1829
In the chronology
1784 to 1943 5 people in 24 entries, most in the 1920s
Places in its deeds and wills
Haw River (2), Lick Branch (1)
Married into
Andrews 1, Redding 1 · the marriages
People with a page here
Thomas C. Atwood
Spellings to try
Attwood
Search beyond these records

Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.

In the chronology 5 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

In the historical records 11 records

3 deeds, 2 marriages, 5 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Atwood marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

1770s

1790s

1810s

1820s

Undated

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